Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
The Jews gather to do battle with gracious words against spiteful ones. This feast, though not divine but human in origin, gave Christ eight days to improve for good purposes. Solomon's porch became His courtroom, where He observed the sanhedrim and stood ready to answer any who sought Him.
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Commenting on John 10:22-38
Verses 34-38. Jesus answered them. The answer of Jesus consists of two parts. The first () shows that they ought not to object to his use of the word God, even if he were no more than a man. The second () repeats substantially what he had before said, left the same impression, and in proof of it he appealed to his works. Verse 34. In your law. .
Here our Saviour by a two-fold argument vindicates himself from the imputation of blasphemy, in assertion himself to be God. 1. Because the Old Testament gave to magistrates and judges the title of gods, I have said ye are gods Ps 82:6.